Land cover classification with GF-3 polarimetric synthetic aperture radar data by random forest classifier and fast super-pixel segmentation

Sensors (Switzerland)

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2018, Pages

  Fang, Yuyuan ^a   Zhang, Haiying ^a   Mao, Qin ^a   Li, Zhenfang ^a  

^a XIDIAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

GF 3 satellite; Land cover classification; Polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (PolSAR); Random forest; Super pixel segmentation

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); DECISION TREES; PIXELS; POLARIMETERS; RADAR SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPACE-BASED RADAR;

CLASSIFICATION METHODS; CLASSIFICATION RESULTS; CONSTANT FALSE ALARM RATE; LAND COVER CLASSIFICATION; POLARIMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR DATA; POLARIMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; RANDOM FOREST CLASSIFIER; RANDOM FORESTS;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ARTICLE; CLASSIFIER; LAND USE; RANDOM FOREST; TELECOMMUNICATION; WORKLOAD;

EID: 85049013705     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s18072014     Document Type: Article

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